Entry № 2967 · Germanic origin

Emery Emery — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EM-er-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Industrious ruler"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "industrious ruler".

Emery comes from the Germanic Amalric — composed of amal (work, labour) and ric (ruler, power), meaning "industrious ruler" or "work-ruler." The name was traditionally male and arrived in England with the Normans.

Emery as a girl's name is a recent American phenomenon, entering the U.S. top 1000 in 2010. It now sits in the U.S.

Industrious ruler — a Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

Emery
Transliteration
Emery
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛm.ə.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Emery stands.

Emery does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Emerys before her.

Real people
Emery Walker
English engraver, printer, and antiquary.
1851 – 1933
In fiction

Names connected to Emery.

The number behind Emery.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Emery reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.